DETROIT (3/27/2024) -- The University of Detroit Mercy men's lacrosse team will play four of its next six games at home as the Titans battle the Royals of Queens on Saturday.
Game time is set for Noon at Titan Field and will feature live stats, but no broadcast.
Tickets are free.
Detroit Mercy has played just one home game in its first seven and is coming off a tough week that saw the Titans fall 13-12 in overtime at Robert Morris and 21-9 at Utah, where game time was adjusted due to weather in the area.
Three Titans have reached double digits in goals on the season as junior
Aidan Bishop leads the team with 12 goals and graduate senior
Luke Majick and junior
Chase Mahabir are tied for second with 10. Junior
Sean Henige leads the team with 11 caused turnovers, and junior
Ryan Richters leads the Atlantic Sun and is second in the nation with 15.1 saves per game.
Queens is 2-5 on the season and 1-2 in league play as the Royals defeated Lindenwood, 8-3, and have lost to Air Force (14-10) and Bellarmine (12-5).
After the game, the Titans will have a week off before heading to Lindenwood next Saturday.
ALL-TIME SERIES
THE MAGIC MAN
- Graduate senior Luke Majick recorded his seventh career hat trick with three goals against VMI and had a season-high four points on two goals and two assists versus Mercer and three points on two helpers and a marker at Robert Morris.
- He has scored a goal in six of the seven games this season and 27 of his 37 career games as a Titan.
- He is tied for the team lead with 16 points and 10 goals and is approaching top 10 in school history in points (80) and goals (49).
- Majick started the year honored by his conference peers as he was named to the Preseason All-ASUN Team as a midfielder after a poll by the league's head coaches.
- A team captain, he played in all 13 games with 11 starts last season and tied for the team-high with a career-best 31 points, ranking 18th in the ASUN with 2.38 points per game. He led the team with a career-best 11 assists and was third with a career-high 20 goals.
- He also tied for the team lead with three man-up goals and had 11 ground balls and two caused turnovers.
- During the year, he posted a career-high seven points on a career-best four goals with three assists at Mercer. He also had a few other hat tricks, coming up with three goals, three ground balls, and a caused turnover versus Robert Morris, three markers at Air Force, and four goals with an assist at Cleveland State.
WEARING THE BIG "C"
- Detroit Mercy will have a trio of outstanding leadership this season as the Titans announced that graduate seniors Kyle Loken and Luke Majick as well as senior Noah Martin will have the honor of wearing the capital 'C' this year.
- "These men have demonstrated to the team and the coaching staff how much they care about their fellow teammates and the program and continue to showcase what we have built this program on," said head coach Chris Kolon '09 (MBA).
- Loken - just the fourth Titan to be named a team captain three times - has seen action in 43 games as a defensive midfielder and has recorded 24 caused turnovers and 73 ground balls to go with 10 goals and two assists. He had a pair of caused turnovers against Mercer. Last year, he tied for fourth on the team with a career-tying 24 ground balls and fifth with a career-high eight caused turnovers, scoring two goals.
- Majick returns as captain for the second straight year. The midfielder has played in 37 games as a Titan and has posted 49 goals and 31 assists.
- Martin - a first-time captain - has played in 38 games, tallying 28 caused turnovers and 59 ground balls. He had two caused turnovers and three GB's against Mercer.
- Last season, he tied for the team lead with a career-best 13 caused turnovers and was second with a career-high 34 GB's.
WE HAVE OUR DREW
- Sophomore Drew Kessenich had a goal and an assist at Utah and that was after a season-high six points on a career-best five assists and a goal at Robert Morris.
- The five assists were the most since Matthew Van Galen had five at Marist in 2019 and one shy of Van Galen's school-record six at Bellarmine, also in 2019, while the seven points were the most by a Titan since Luke Majick had seven on four goals and three assists last year at Mercer.
- He had 10 assists last year and already has 10 this season, ranking fourth in the league with 1.43 per game, to go with six goals.
- Last season, he was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team after tying for the team lead with 31 points and finishing second with 21 goals. He also topped the squad with five man-up goals.
- He scored a goal in nine games, with multi-strikes in seven, including seven points on five goals and two assists against Lindenwood and back-to-back three-goal games at Ohio State and Mercer.
KING ME
- Junior Aidan Bishop has started the season with a pair of goals in five of the seven games and has found the back of the net in six of them after a goal at Utah.
- He had a career-tying three goals at Robert Morris. He also had three markers against the Colonials last season.
- Bishop had two goals at Marquette and posted a career-best four points on two goals and two assists against VMI. He picked up four ground balls at Rutgers and raised his career best to five GB's with two goals and a caused turnover at Ohio State.
- In his career, he has now played in 31 games with 29 starts and has 30 goals, eight assists, 48 ground balls and 10 caused turnovers.
NEWBIES
- Freshman Sean Donahue notched his second career hat trick with three goals at Robert Morris. His first career goal was in the opener at Marquette and he tallied his first hat trick with an assist at Ohio State. Freshman Lucas Goeller registered his first assist and point against the Golden Eagles and scored his first goal against OSU.
- Freshman Owen Miller scored his first goal against VMI, while rookie Sawyer Van Antwer picked up his first marker at Rutgers, scored another at Ohio State and just put in two at Utah.
NOLAN'S OUR MAN
- Junior Nolan Graalman is coming off a season-high two goals at Utah.
- He started the season with a goal in each of the first two games and scored another against Mercer.
- Last year he had 16 points on the strength of 15 goals, fourth on the team.
- He recorded a career-high three goals against Utah and tied his goal mark with three strikes at Cleveland State.
I WILL TAKE A HENIGE
- Junior Sean Henige once again tied his career mark with three caused turnovers at Utah.
- He leads the team with 11 caused turnovers and ranks fifth in the ASUN and 36th in DI with 1.57 per game.
- He had a career day with three caused turnovers and seven ground balls against VMI and tied his mark with three caused turnovers and two ground balls at Ohio State.
- In the opener, he had two ground balls at Marquette and just picked up three GB's with a takeaway at Robert Morris as he ranks seventh in the ASUN and 48th in DI with 1.4 vaused turnovers per game.
- He did not see any action as a rookie, but appeared in 13 games with 12 starts last year and was fourth on the team with 10 caused turnovers and also had 20 GB's.
- He posted a season-high two caused turnovers and four ground balls at High Point, two caused turnovers and two GB's at Queens and four ground balls and two caused turnovers against Bellarmine.
THAT'S RIGHT I SAID OWEN
- Sophomore Eoghan Mullett- pronounced Owen - had a career-high three caused turnovers versus Mercer.
- He had a caused turnover, three ground balls and scored his first goal at nationally-ranked Rutgers, and added a caused turnover and three GB's at Ohio State.
- He led the team with 36 ground balls and tied for the team lead with 13 caused turnovers, ranking 10th in the ASUN with 3.0 ground balls per game, last year.
- He registered a caused turnover in 11 games and collected a ground ball in every game, with at least three on six occasions.
GUARDING THE NET
- Juniors Jakob Hemme and Ryan Richters are the top two goalies on the roster, a roster that has five netminders.
- Richters had another great performance, tying his season-high with 19 saves at Utah after 17 at Robert Morris, including six in the fourth period.
- He now has double-digit saves in all seven games following his original season-high 19 and six ground balls with a caused turnover against Mercer, 15 saves at Ohio State, 12 with five ground balls at #16/14 Rutgers, 13 versus VMI, and 11 at Marquette
- He is leading the ASUN and second in the nation with 15.1 saves per game.
- Hemme ranks fourth in school history with 271 saves and second with 12.9 saves per game. He saw action in 11 games with 10 starts last season and led the team with 137 saves - 10th in school history.
- He has played in 21 games and has double-digit saves in 18 of them, tying a school record with 28 at Michigan in 2022.
- Meanwhile, Richters hails from California and played as a freshman at Grand Canyon and as a sophomore at Concordia in California. Last season, he made 48 saves and posted a 62.3% save percentage, helping Concordia to a MCLA title.
- He also played for Team Latvia at the 2023 World Lacrosse Championships and was nominated to the All-World Team.
EVAN DOING A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING
- Junior Evan DeVito has showcased an all-around game this year as a LSM and defenseman.
- He has three caused turnovers, 13 ground balls, and has scored his first two career goals, while winning six faceoffs.
- He scored his first goal against VMI and picked up a career-best four GB's with a caused turnover and a goal against Mercer.
CHASING YOU DOWN
- Junior Chase Mahabir is on fire on offense as he registered a point for the sixth-straight game with an assist at Utah.
- Prior to that, he scored a goal in five straight, recording a career-best four markers at Robert Morris and notching his first hat trick with three goals against Mercer.
- He found the back of the net versus VMI, at #16/14 Rutgers and Ohio State.
- He came into the season with just four career goals but has 10 on the year.
GIVE ME A GRANT
- Sophomore Kyle Grant tied his career-high with two caused turnovers at Ohio State and picked up a career-best four ground balls against Mercer.
- He just added three GB's at Utah.
- As a freshman, he played in all 11 games and caused six turnovers, including a pair at VMI and Queens.
